When an object specification is passed to 'cat-file --batch[-check]'
referring to a submodule (e.g. 'HEAD:path/to/my/submodule'), the current
behavior of the command is to print the "missing" error message. However, it
is often valuable for callers to distinguish between paths that are actually
missing and "the submodule tree entry exists, but the object does not exist
in the repository".
To disambiguate without needing to invoke a separate Git process (e.g.
'ls-tree'), print the message "<oid> submodule" for such objects instead of
"<object> missing". In addition to the change from "missing" to "submodule",
the new message differs from the old in that it always prints the resolved
tree entry's OID, rather than the input object specification.
Note that this implementation maintains a distinction between submodules
where the commit OID is not present in the repo, and submodules where the
commit OID *is* present; the former will now print "<object> submodule", but
the latter will still print the full object content.
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a formatting atom, used with the --batch-check/--batch-command options,
that prints the octal representation of the object mode if a given revision
includes that information, e.g. one that follows the format
<tree-ish>:<path>. If the mode information does not exist, an empty string
is printed instead.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The cat-file command has some minor support for handling objects with
"unknown" types. I.e., strings that are not "blob", "commit", "tree", or
"tag".
In theory this could be used for debugging or experimenting with
extensions to Git. But in practice this support is not very useful:
1. You can get the type and size of such objects, but nothing else.
Not even the contents!
2. Only loose objects are supported, since packfiles use numeric ids
for the types, rather than strings.
3. Likewise you cannot ever transfer objects between repositories,
because they cannot be represented in the packfiles used for the
on-the-wire protocol.
The support for these unknown types complicates the object-parsing code,
and has led to bugs such as b748ddb7a4 (unpack_loose_header(): fix
infinite loop on broken zlib input, 2025-02-25). So let's drop it.
The first step is to remove the user-facing parts, which are accessible
only via cat-file. This is technically backwards-incompatible, but given
the limitations listed above, these objects couldn't possibly be useful
in any workflow.
However, we can't just rip out the option entirely. That would hurt a
caller who ran:
git cat-file -t --allow-unknown-object <oid>
and fed it normal, well-formed objects. There --allow-unknown-type was
doing nothing, but we wouldn't want to start bailing with an error. So
to protect any such callers, we'll retain --allow-unknown-type as a
noop.
The code change is fairly small (but we'll able to clean up more code in
follow-on patches). The test updates drop any use of the option. We
still retain tests that feed the broken objects to cat-file without
--allow-unknown-type, as we should continue to confirm that those
objects are rejected. Note that in one spot we can drop a layer of loop,
re-indenting the body; viewing the diff with "-w" helps there.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git cat-file --batch" and friends learned to allow "--filter=" to
omit certain objects, just like the transport layer does.
* ps/cat-file-filter-batch:
builtin/cat-file: use bitmaps to efficiently filter by object type
builtin/cat-file: deduplicate logic to iterate over all objects
pack-bitmap: introduce function to check whether a pack is bitmapped
pack-bitmap: add function to iterate over filtered bitmapped objects
pack-bitmap: allow passing payloads to `show_reachable_fn()`
builtin/cat-file: support "object:type=" objects filter
builtin/cat-file: support "blob:limit=" objects filter
builtin/cat-file: support "blob:none" objects filter
builtin/cat-file: wire up an option to filter objects
builtin/cat-file: introduce function to report object status
builtin/cat-file: rename variable that tracks usage
Implement support for the "object:type=" filter in git-cat-file(1),
which causes us to omit all objects that don't match the provided object
type.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Implement support for the "blob:limit=" filter in git-cat-file(1), which
causes us to omit all blobs that are bigger than a certain size.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Implement support for the "blob:none" filter in git-cat-file(1), which
causes us to omit all blobs.
Note that this new filter requires us to read the object type via
`oid_object_info_extended()` in `batch_object_write()`. But as we try to
optimize away reading objects from the database the `data->info.typep`
pointer may not be set. We thus have to adapt the logic to conditionally
set the pointer in cases where the filter is given.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In batch mode, git-cat-file(1) enumerates all objects and prints them
by iterating through both loose and packed objects. This works without
considering their reachability at all, and consequently most options to
filter objects as they exist in e.g. git-rev-list(1) are not applicable.
In some situations it may still be useful though to filter objects based
on properties that are inherent to them. This includes the object size
as well as its type.
Such a filter already exists in git-rev-list(1) with the `--filter=`
command line option. While this option supports a couple of filters that
are not applicable to our usecase, some of them are quite a neat fit.
Wire up the filter as an option for git-cat-file(1). This allows us to
reuse the same syntax as in git-rev-list(1) so that we don't have to
reinvent the wheel. For now, we die when any of the filter options has
been passed by the user, but they will be wired up in subsequent
commits.
Further note that the filters that we are about to introduce don't
significantly speed up the runtime of git-cat-file(1). While we can skip
emitting a lot of objects in case they are uninteresting to us, the
majority of time is spent reading the packfile, which is bottlenecked by
I/O and not the processor. This will change though once we start to make
use of bitmaps, which will allow us to skip reading the whole packfile.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation is using the historical mode for titles, which is a
setext-style (i.e., two-line) section title.
The issue with this mode is that starting block delimiters (e.g.,
`----`) can be confused with a section title when they are exactly the
same length as the preceding line. In the original documentation, this
is taken care of for English by the writer, but it is not the case for
translations where these delimiters are hidden. A translator can
generate a line that is exactly the same length as the following block
delimiter, which leads to this line being considered as a title.
To safeguard against this issue, add a blank line before and after
block delimiters where block is at root level, else add a "+" line
before block delimiters to link it to the preceding paragraph.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We presently use the ".txt" extension for our AsciiDoc files. While not
wrong, most editors do not associate this extension with AsciiDoc,
meaning that contributors don't get automatic editor functionality that
could be useful, such as syntax highlighting and prose linting.
It is much more common to use the ".adoc" extension for AsciiDoc files,
since this helps editors automatically detect files and also allows
various forges to provide rich (HTML-like) rendering. Let's do that
here, renaming all of the files and updating the includes where
relevant. Adjust the various build scripts and makefiles to use the new
extension as well.
Note that this should not result in any user-visible changes to the
documentation.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Victoria Dye